We will now have no ultimate that can give a team a chance to recover after being wiped.
First people hailed Mercy’s rework for giving Symm’s Teleporter a chance to shine, but now what?
We need Mercy’s Original Rez back, or else we should keep Teleporter as an ultimate.
as long as shes fun and engaging again.
Instead she can just block off most ults now.
Tactical Visor? Lol no I don’t think so. Grav + Barrage Combo? Make Pharah kill herself with her ult. It seems like an excellent defensive ultimate.
Yes, we have yet ANOTHER proactive ultimate, just like Lucio’s, Zenyatta’s, and Brigitte’s.
And yet we now have no REACTIVE ultimates to give us a chance of coming back after a fight goes awry. We used to have TWO, now we’ll have none.
Problem with reactive ones is that they’re all or nothing. You either get tons of use out of them or none at all, in Sym’s case hers either gets ignored completely by the enemy team or gets destroyed immediately which even if you do get it down you’ve still gotta wait out the respawn timer and still have to walk a bit to point.
The only problem with this logic is the ult was on a broken hero that basically handicaps the team. You were already fighting 5v6 and most of the time the teleporter just makes people trickle through and feed more ults to the enemy’s anyways. I’m glad it’s going bye bye.
Don’t get wiped then?
I always felt the old teleporter was kind of broken in so many ways. One it was very easy to destroy and two on some maps it was in a bad place in terms of the spawn room. Imo it should of just had some kind of button you push while dead to respawn at the teleporter. That way you have to wait 10 seconds to respawn, but you don’t have find and walk to the teleporter as well. But now that it’s gone it’s not really that much of an issue.
I agree reactive Ults are on the way out, but that is kind of what Blizzard has been doing for a while with nerfing Dva’s defense matrix, Mercy’s Rez and so on. People call anything that prevents or undo’s a kill “unfun” and they nerf it. Some how it’s more fun to have your whole team wiped out by a single enemy Ult, but it’s game breaking to have an ult stopped.
The point of the game is to not get wiped. Why should you be entitled to a do over because you lost? Win the team fight. Problem solved.
I’m sure the new cycle of dying and walking back (Possibly waiting for teammates to spawn back with you) every time will be super engaging and fun
Oh it is, thats why the first point on most maps is a gimme because no one want’s to bother to walk back and defend it if they die. Even if you wanted to, usually once you lose the first team fight it’s a lost cause. Almost makes the first objective utterly pointless to be honest on most escort maps. It would be like trying to attack from the first point spawn on the last objective. 10 seconds waiting to respawn and another 20 or so to walk back.
I honestly feel so jebaited by this post, I assumed it was an actual discussion about symmetra only for it to be a classic “bring back old Rez” post 
Not all about Mercy, just support counter play in general. Though I suppose given Sym might not be in support any more it does raise the question even more. If Symetra is moved to the defense category and given her mega shield wall Ultimate, wouldn’t that make her the only Offense/Defense hero without an offensive ult?
I mean I guess there is Widow and Sombra, but at least their ults are sort of designed to help you kill the enemies easier. Symetra’s is just a big huge wall. It’s almost like they still can’t decide if she’s DPS or Support. Over all has a DPS kit now, especially with the loss of the projected barrier but has a supportive ult?
The new ult is generally worse the her two current ults. Does it look cooler? Yes but keeping your team from having to travel long distances like first point Anubis or 75 regenative health is a big deal. That 5000 health shelid isn’t going to stay up long. A enemy team can safely shoot it from anywhere in the game because of Its size.
So you want games to last even longer than they do today? No, god, simply no! No way!
When your team wipes, play better next time, reconsider your strategy and get over it - period.
She’ll still have her teleporter though? It’s not like they’re getting rid of it completely.
More of the least fun part of the game: walking back from spawn.
I’m ok with what they’re doing to TP, what i’m not ok with is that fact that they’re getting rid of her ability to give Shields to herself and allies.
imo that’s fine… with Brigitte around the extra armors+shields were getting a lil bit too much anyway.
What i’m really gonna miss with TP placement working differently and SG gone, is the ability to bait people with them.
Oh god yes. Just change the ultimate again with the E. A channel healing for 5 seconds on a maybe 12 sec cooldown? And Mass rez back. Pls…